Imagining Creation

Imagining Creation
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Publisher : BRILL
Total Pages : 448
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ISBN-10 : 9789047422976
ISBN-13 : 904742297X
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Book Synopsis Imagining Creation by : Markham (Mark) Geller

Download or read book Imagining Creation written by Markham (Mark) Geller and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2007-10-01 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagining Creation is a collection of views on creation by noted authors from different disciplines. Topics include creation accounts and iconography from Mesopotamia and Egypt, and cosmologies from India and Africa. Special attention is devoted to creation in the Scriptures (Bible and Koran) and related oral traditions on Genesis from Slavonic Europe, as well as Kabbalah. Some of the creations myths are earlier and some later than the Bible, while a number of the discussed texts offer alternative approaches to the beginnings of the universe. The contributions provide many new perspectives on the origins of man and his world from diverse cultures. The volume is the proceedings of a symposium on creation stories held at University College London.


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